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@bilboswagginz96
It’s beautiful seeing culture celebrated and not suppressed as Jason Momoa, family and friends perform the haka on the Aquaman red carpet.
🔥 🔥🔥🔥
Beautiful!
Ok but that carpet is blue
Just like the ocean, and this is badass
Isn’t that cultural appropriation?
/s
I wanna see someone go say that to Momoa’s face for his reaction.
Something tells me the person in question’s spine would have the same fate as the trident
I know this is a fun tweet and all that but it absolutely is an instance of striaght privilege. Heterosexual people have up to seven years to explore their sexual and romantic attraction in an environment that is designed for them while many queer youth deligate their time in maneuvering their identity in response to themselves and their environment. It’s one of the reasons why dating as a queer adult is so hard: so many of us are romantically undersocialized when compared to our heterosexual peers, who are not only given social liscence to explore themselves, but who have the additional benefit of being able to see themselves in media.
There will always be exceptions to this, of course, but it’s so sad to see how the effects of childhood homophobia haunt us well into our adult years, to the point where it limits our opportunity to connect with other people around us.
What’s wild to me is, like, the straights get an extra 7+ years of dating practice, and yet almost every queer relationship I’ve ever seen is STILL way healthier than straight relationships
I don’t know if that’s because of gender roles or because we’ve had longer time to mature before we define what a healthy relationship means to us, but it’s still pretty wack to me
^These 2
Broke: I didn’t get a date cuz I’m insufferable
Woke: I didn’t get a date cuz I’m queer
Who tf getting dates in middle school you hoes go to church
A lot of people don’t even get dates in middle school and high school. If anything, despite living in a conservative area, there were plenty of bi and gay people having relationships in my high school. Maybe they’re just projecting.
In middle school I don’t remember anyone really dating until like 8th grade, and even then it was only a few people and it wasn’t remotely serious. High school was different but I do remember quite a few gay couples in high school. Maybe things are just different now than they were for these guys? Idk nobody ever made a big deal about it.
I didn’t even hold a guy’s hand until I was 20 sooo.
Fucking str8s and their *shuffles deck* happiness
It’s time to bring an end to the Rape Anthem Masquerading As Christmas Carol
Hi there! Former English nerd/teacher here. Also a big fan of jazz of the 30s and 40s.
So. Here’s the thing. Given a cursory glance and applying today’s worldview to the song, yes, you’re right, it absolutely *sounds* like a rape anthem.
BUT! Let’s look closer!
“Hey what’s in this drink” was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol.
See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do — and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.” But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink — unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?” It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren’t supposed to have sexual agency.
Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because the woman has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposed to, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…” She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.
So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so. But it’s also, at the same time, one of the best illustrations of rape culture that pop culture has ever produced. It’s a song about a society where women aren’t allowed to say yes…which happens to mean it’s also a society where women don’t have a clear and unambiguous way to say no.
remember loves: context is everything. and personal opinion matters. If you still find this song to be a problem, that’s fine. But please don’t make it into something it’s not because it’s been stripped of cultural context.
This is actually really interesting. I’ve never known a lot of the background to this song.
I’m reblogging this once this year and I’m not talking about it again.
Maybe you people should stop assuming the absolute worst just because one or two phrases have managed to change their meanings in over half a century
Black children and families in America deserve better. Text JOIN to 644-33 to join the gun violence prevention movement.
Is it because gang activity is rampant and innocent people are caught in the crossfire because they have no means to defend themselves?
And gangs force kids to join and or don’t care about killing kids. But yeah, blame guns.
And they generally don’t use legal guns in the first place.
https://everytownresearch.org/impact-gun-violence-american-children-teens/
Which Everytown conveniently doesn’t mention at any point on their page. Bit of an oversight.
We should make gangs and illegal guns against the law
Hmmmm it’s almost like criminals don’t follow laws
A SOUTH Africa has set a date for when its much-criticised land expropriations can begin after a politician declared: “Your time is up, white people”.
The proposal was “shelved” after Trump brought international attention to it, but now it’s back - and the timing is so that news reports of it (if anyone reports it at all) will be drowned out by Brexit, which takes place at the same time.
This is a very real thing. Not the bit about King, but the bit about the government endorsed genocide.
Indeed it is. I kindof feel bad now for making light of it, there’s nothing funny about what’s happening in S Africa. There are absolute atrocities happening there and the government not turns a blind eye and lies to the media about but some of the officials are encouraging it.
http://africancrisis.info/index.php/2018/11/01/video-south-africa-blacks-drown-white-boy-boiling-water/
Yeah, not a joking matter when tens of thousands of people are being murdered by racist hit squads with the support of their racist government.
Genocide watch stopped tracking this a couple years ago and I feel like that is the most terrifying part of all this; one of the only NGOs which tracks genocide isn’t tracking the only current genocide because it’s against white folks.
and yet the middle class white girl EssJayDubs are silent about this and still very vocal about crypto fascists, Trump is racist making life scary for POC etc etc.
Poor people. I’d say give THEM refugee status.
Recreate Zimbabwe because it seems like only white farmers know how to actually make land work.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Leave and never look back, before you go fill your fields with stones and salt, destroy all of your farm machinery, scorched earth all the way and leave nothing usable behind.
Leave and let them starve to death
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The ending they are so in love!
Omg
Gay? They’re just behaving like normal pride members, they’re probably cousins or brothers.
Projecting human romantic feelings on animals is just how tumblr be
You people are so desperate for representation that you pretend animals are gay? Yikes
Tumblr when they were removed by Apple from the App Store:
Tumblr “working as quickly as possible to resolve the issue”:
Tumblr on December 18th looking for 60% of their users:
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This Man Did Something That’s Already Expected Of Women But He Gets Extra Praise Cause He’s A Man
No. A lot of women don’t go to cosmetology classes to learn how to do hair, they have the experience from growing up-their mom doing their hair, Then experimenting which what they can do themselves. This guy probably had short hair his entire life with no clue on what to do. He didn’t just look up how to do a ponytail, he paid for actual classes so that he could do his little daughters hair in cool and creative ways so that SHE gets the learning experience and learns how to do it her own and then can go to school with fabulous. This is A+ daddy right here, he went above and beyond because he knows that he lack in certain areas where a mom would pick this up. Please don’t destroy nice things that men do simply because they are men and you want to hate them.
Please don’t destroy nice things that men do simply because they are men and you want to hate them.
Shots fired.
Misandry isn’t cute on you, knock it off. We get it, no one will date you
The hero we deserve
“Am I shot”
“Oh Fuck yeah”
“Oh”
@nunyabizni
I love this video, stupid fucks got what they deserved
“Oh fuck yeah!” is the best part omg
SWAT kicking down my meth lab door: GET DOWN ON THE GROUND Me (with cat ears on): oh nyoez!!! Sowwy mister gubbermemt ;‘3 I can haz weduced sentence fow compwiance? SWAT guy: *shoots me in the head*
Broke
WOKE
Ho ho holy shit
I was hoping for people to call this stupid, but not like this
We need another mass extinction, stat
poor baby drank too much milk :(
Inb4 “NAZI’S DOXXED ME AND GOT ME FIRED FROM MY JOB!!!”
WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE
Wow, as if someone would date this bitch
lizdexia and I spread our legs for feminism.
This is Susan B. Anthony’s Wikipedia page. Please read, compare and think about what message you’re sending when you say you did something “for feminism”.
*sighs and laughs* oh sweet jesus..oh man this is great. On an empty train.
Exactly why feminism doesn’t get anything positive done
Well it’s not too surprising that they spread their legs in the name of feminism… Zoe Quinn did the same thing just to get ratings on her videogame.
Oop.
“I spread my legs on an empty train for feminism! Like and reblog!”
Ever notice how most “activism” on tumblr never actually helps anyone and it’s all about getting asspats from people who already agree with you?
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This is my new favourite post
I’m in tears
